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- THE MEANING OF .ARC, .LBR, .LQR, .EQE, .?Q?
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- HELP FOR NEWUSERS ON BULLETIN BOARDS
-
- Disk storage space is always a problem. Therefore, several methods have
- been developed to save BBS Systems space to hold more files. An advan-
- tage to the user is that the files are smaller, taking less time to down-
- load. What we do (Sysops [system operator] that is) is to "ARCHIVE" or
- "SQUEEZE" or "LIBRARY and SQUEEZE" FILES. This is done with several
- utilities. Before you can use any of the files that have been libraried
- or squeezed or archived, you must "UN" lib, "UN" sq, or "UN" archive the
- file.
-
- The names may change slightly but to use files from this RBBS, you MUST
- have a copy of:
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- 1) ARC430.EXE 2) ARC430.DQC (docs for arc430.exe)
- 3) LUE.COM 4) NUSQ14.COM
-
- A) ARC430.EXE is the archive utility that we are switching to for almost
- everything!! ALWAYS ARCHIVE YOUR UPLOADS TO THIS RBBS!!!
- You will know that you have to use this utility whenever a file has
- an extension of .ARC (example: TURBO-UT.ARC, PCW25.ARC, etc.).
-
- To operate this utility:
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- 1) To open an ARCHIVED file:
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- - type at the A> ARC430 E FILENAME.ARC
- -make sure that you have enough disk space
- for the opened file
-
- 2) To create an ARCHIVED file:
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- - type at the A> ARC430 U ARCHIVENAME FILENAME.EXT
-
- - You can also use wildcards:
- ARC430 U ARCHIVENAME *.*
-
- - do a whole subdirectory or disk.
-
- 3) To "TEST" a file to be sure that you got a good download, you
- type at the A> ARC430 T FILENAME.ARC.
- -it is good practice to always test your downloads.
-
- 4) You can "print" to screen/printer docs that are within an
- archive and you can "run" a file without extracting. See
- ARC430.DQC for details.
-
- B) LUE.COM is a utility that will open a library file. A library file
- is one that has the extension: .LBR . To operate:
-
- 1) Type at the A> LUE FILENAME.LBR
- -make sure that you have enough space on disk for the opened
- file. There may be from 2 to 255 files inside an .LBR!
- You may also find that all the files inside a .LBR are
- squeezed; some or all may have a "Q" as the middle letter of
- the extension. Where you have a "Q" as the middle letter of
- the extension, you use NUSQ14.COM to "UN"squeeze the file.
- Some still use odd-ball squeezers and when you run NUSQ14
- against the squeezed file, you get the message: NOT A SQUEEZED
- FILE. When this occurs, you need, in most cases, USQ2.EXE.
- This is a real slow cumbersome unsqueezers but you should have
- it in your arsenal for those few files.
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- C) NUSQ14.COM is a file to "UN"squeeze files. You will know that a file
- is squeezed when it has a "Q" as the middle letter of the extension:
- for example: TURBOTOOL.DQC, RAMPAGE.EQE, HELP.HQP, FREEDOM.LQR.
- If you see: .LQR in the extension, it is a library that has been
- created and then squeezed. You will have to unsqueeze then unlibrary
- with LUE.COM.
-
- 1) To operate:
-
- - type at the A> NUSQ14 FILENAME.EQT
-
- - Nusq14 will accept wildcards: NUSQ14 *.*
- -this will unsqueeze all the files. It will not do
- anything to a file that is not squeezed.
-
-
- ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT ALL THIS, LEAVE A MESSAGE TO THE SYSOP!!